Ian is 11 months old. We have less than a month to go to his first birthday!(??!!??) Ian is a very busy guy these days. He’s running all over the place, trying to get into as much trouble as humanly possible. His favorite places to be this month are the garage, the back yard, upstairs,Read More

It’s happened. My baby girl is now 5 years old. She is smart and sweet and curious and sassy and just as busy, busy, busy as ever. She came into this world with a BIG personality, and it just keeps getting bigger. Every person she meets is a friendship waiting to happen. Each new thingRead More

Ian’s few steps here and there last month have turned into full blown walking this month. He can cross the living room and kitchen. He can walk in circles. He’s walked up and down hills. He’s run across restaurants. It’s still a little bumbling, and he falls down a lot (especially given that Isla andRead More

Look who refuses to lay down! Ian Mac is officially 9 months old. His biggest accomplishment this month is walking! He’s starting to take steps here and there. He’s also enjoying climbing on anything he can hike his little legs up onto and getting into absolutely everything. Each day brings fresh scrapes, bruises, and knots.Read More

First things first. Ian is enormous! He’s in size 18 month clothes and weighs somewhere north of 21 lbs. His Christmas ornament handprint relative to Isla’s–who was a month older when she did hers in 2012–is massive. He crawls at lightning speed all over our house, with his bottom lip jutted out, cheeks wobbling, andRead More

This month, Ian had his first Halloween and his first Thanksgiving. He also had his first visit to Santa Claus, and he’s been very curious about our Christmas tree. We have an epic baby gate blocking it from his investigations. He’s crawling, pulling up to standing, and into absolutely everything. He’s a potato no more. HisRead More

Keeping with the tradition of posting these a couple of weeks late… Ian is six months old! Half a year! HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?! So the big things: Ian can sit up all by himself. He can scoot around on his bottom. He can turn himself in circles while seated. He leans forward onto hisRead More

Ian Mac is 5 months old. This month has been quite busy. He’s able to sit up on his own (propped up on his hands) for several minutes at a time and can roll back to tummy fairly reliably. He’s rolling tummy to back less often, but I have seen it happen! We’ve been workingRead More

At his 4 month well baby check, Ian weighed in at 16 lbs. 12 oz. and measured 24.5″ long. He’s wearing 9 and 12 month clothes these days–with the 9 month outfits having a Hulk-like fit–which makes me unbelievably sad walking into a baby section at the store and realizing Ian can’t fit into halfRead More

Ian Mac is 3 months old! This month’s big achievements include learning how to laugh and getting better at pushing his upper body off the ground during tummy time. We also got a week-and-a-half of sleeping all the way through the night, 10-12 hours/night, but then he added back a night wake-up…then another. At thisRead More